Jennifer Henderson: New Communications Liaison
Assistant Professor Jennifer Chang NPR has been asking poets to talk about their summers by reading their poems. We’re pleased that our very own Professor Jennifer Chang was among the poets they chose. The interview begins with a brief discussion of a time when Professor Chang was asked to submit a poem to the New…
In the year 1988, poet and editor David Lehman started The Best American Poetry series. The guest editor of the anthology examines the collective output of large and small literary journals; from this the guest editor attempts to glean 75 poems. The sampling that is selected is representative of the “best” poems of that year….
Congratulations to Professor Kavita Daiya, who has recently published her book Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and Postcolonial Nationalism in India. Professor Daiya answered a few questions for me about her book, which should be of great interest to students of many disciplines, not just English. How did the research for Violent Belongings begin? Did the…
Professor Wald’s latest book is available from Duke University Press GW English and American Studies are very excited to announce that Professor Gayle Wald’s new book, It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television (Duke University Press), has just been released. The book examines Soul!, the first African American black variety television show on public…
Professor Gayle Wald is part of an upcoming American Masters presentation on PBS. Readers of this blog are already familiar with Professor Wald’s important book on African American guitarist and singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Tharpe’s story is now detailed in a new film…
[Bagel photos by Tess Malone. Photo of Connie Kibler & Tess Malone by Jeffrey Cohen] Shouldn’t you be in Rome 760 right now? You should be sitting in that third chair in the photo. Enjoying a delicious bagel provided by the wonderful Gayle Wald, wearing your incredibly dorky, but awesome English t-shirt, and generally reveling…